Matrimonial property

United Nations

General Comment No. 12 (2009) on the ‘The right of the child to be heard’ of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

Council of Europe

Council of Europe, Recommendation No. R (98)1 of the Committee of Ministers to Member States on family mediation adopted on 21 January 1998

Council of Europe, European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice, Guidelines for a better implementation of the existing recommendation concerning family mediation and mediation in civil matters (CEPEJ (2007)14)

Guidelines of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on child-friendly justice adopted on 17 November 2010

Hague Conference on Private International Law

Hague Conference on Private International Law, General Principles and Guide to Good Practice, Transfrontier Contact Concerning Children (2008)

Conclusions and recommendations of the Joint Conference European Commission – Hague Conference on Direct Judicial Communications on Family Law Matters and the Development of Judicial Networks (2009))

Hague Conference on Private International Law, Report on Judicial Communications in Relation to International Child Protection, drawn up by Philippe Lortie (currently Doc. Prel. No.3 of April 2011

Hague Conference on Private International Law, Revised draft Guide to Good Practice under the Hague Child Abduction Convention, Part V – Mediation (2012)

Model Application Form for the return of wrongfully removed or retained children under the 1980 Hague Convention

Documents on mediation

European Code of Conduct for Mediators of July 2004

Wroclaw Declaration of 8 October 2007 on Mediation of Bi-national Disputes over Parents’ and Children’s Issues